Link: 5 Practices to Put in Place
Sometimes I wonder this a lot about my own photography and whether I should really get back into it more or not.
Carl Newport: At the end of the day, what am I building? A disappearing timeline of trivial events instead of a meaningful body of work or closer friendships. And, the constant capturing pulls me out of the moment and makes me feel compulsive—and act—compulsive.
I didn’t know .gitignore could do this:
# Blacklist everyting in this folder... /* # ...except for... !.gitignore !.gitconfig !.notes/
Link: Some Writing Advice: Don’t Take Others’ Advice
If you’re wanting to write more, this might be worth a quick read.
This is a story. Offered in the hope it intrigues or amuses. It is not a template. I don’t think there are templates for the creative process, beyond the very basic, obvious one: if you don’t do it, it won’t get done. Putting in the hours. Trudging up the hill, metaphorically, when the cool people are still dancing.
Link: Three.js Fundamentals
So amazing what you can do in just the browser these days:
When learning most programming languages the first thing people do is make the computer print “Hello World!”. For 3D one of the most common first things to do is to make a 3D cube. so let’s start with “Hello Cube!”
Some beautiful thoughts/poetry.
Link: You are my victim
The result was a gross profit of over $50,000 for two days of a campaign with no hacks, no compromises of systems, nothing but an email message with little to no risk of the attacker being caught. The only cost to the attacker is a couple of open mail relays and a list of email addresses and passwords from a years old attack.
Without reviewing in more depth, we can conclude that the person in question made at least 11 Bitcoins ($77,000) from this campaign and possibly as much as a million dollars for a month’s worth of sending junk mail.
Almost unbelievable and scary numbers.
It seems bonkers to me that Final Cut Pro X doesn’t have support for closed captions. Coming from Apple, you’d think it would have excellent support for them. How does Apple create closed captions…?
Ditto.